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==== Machine Wilderness ==== | ==== Machine Wilderness ==== |
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| [[Machine Wilderness Symposium]] |
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Project outline.\\ | Project outline.\\ |
**Locations:** FoAM's [[MidWest_Experimental_Station]] and Zone2Source in Amstelpark.\\ | **Locations:** FoAM's [[MidWest_Experimental_Station]] and Zone2Source in Amstelpark.\\ |
**Partners:** FoAM Ams, [[http://zone2source.net/nl/|Zone2Source]], [[http://ivanhenriques.com/|Ivan Henriques]], [[http://www.ontaardeboom.nl/ |Daan van Geijlswijk]] .\\ | **Partners:** FoAM Ams, [[http://zone2source.net/nl/|Zone2Source]], [[https://www.artis.nl/|ARTIS zoo]]\\ |
[[Machine_Ecology_notes]]\\ | [[Machine_Ecology_notes]]\\ |
[[Machine_Ecology_PlanVanAanpak]]\\ | [[Machine_Ecology_DesignNotes]]\\ |
[[Machine_Ecology_ProgrammaEisenRobot]]\\ | [[Machine_Wilderness_feedback]]\\ |
[[Machine_Ecology_Het Verhaal]]\\ | [[Machine_Wilderness_glossary]]\\ |
[[Machine_Ecology_Planning]]\\ | [[Machine_Wilderness_workshops]]\\ |
| [[concept_car_notes]]\\ |
| [[machine_listening]]\\ |
| [[biology_notes]] |
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**Keywords:** ecological robotics, restoration ecology, artificial organisms, artscience, foodwebs, trophic cascades, biodiversity, groworld.\\ | **Keywords:** ecological robotics, restoration ecology, artificial organisms, artscience, complexity, foodwebs, trophic cascades, biodiversity, groworld.\\ |
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**Outline:**\\ | **Outline: Machine Wilderness programme**\\ |
This programme is aimed at reimagining what robotics could mean in functionality, materiality and ecology, when they are designed as expressions based on habitats and trophic interactions. Machine Wilderness is a project prototyping artificial organisms as functional agents within biomes and landscapes, actively contributing to biodiversity. The new [[http://proefstationmidwest.nl/|MidWest Experimental Station]] a research station set up by FoAM in Amsterdam, will provide a test area for ecological robotics and study interactions between biomes and mechanical organisms.\\ | Pioneers like al Jazari already made programmable automata around 1200AD. Complex machines have therefore been part of our environment for many centuries. Human infrastructures came to really dominate the planet since the Industrial Revolution. The word that comes to mind is brutality. Edward O. Wilson described our current age of mass extinction as the ‘Age of Loneliness’ and in many ways our technologies in these shared and biodiverse environments have been technologies of loneliness that violate natural processes, disturb habitats and crush biodiversity.\\ |
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| Human technologies and infrastructures populate a planet still teaming with a bewildering array of life. But we design for the needs and wants of just one of those species, ad tedium. In a world full of creatures we've only been talking to ourselves. What would it be like to work for a much broader audience? What if we include the other 99,99% of life?\\ |
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**Topics:** Could artificial beings contribute to biodiversity, microclimates, pollination, zoochorie, reforestation or even fill vacant ecological niches? Could artificial beings interact symbiotically in food-webs? Use foraging strategies as a power source? Predate on invasive species, or enable trophic cascades to create more biodiverse landscapes?\\ | The often heared ambition to 'reconnect to nature', implies accepting ourselves as nature. Including all our artifacts, infrastructures and machines. If we see them - our extended technological body - as nature, we can nolonger design them as if they are not. Then the other 99.99% of life becomes part of the frame of reference in which human technologies are developed.\\ |
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| Machine Wilderness aims to take a radical turn towards the great wealth of non-human life. What could an ecologically inclusive practice look like? How do you engage with the levels of complexity, subtlety and grace of life? What could technology look like if our technologies related to landscapes in the way organisms do; participating in local material flows, food-chains and layers of communication?\\ |
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| Can our tools help us rejoin the Great Conversation with life?\\ |
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Artists / designers: | Artists / designers: |
* [[http://ivanhenriques.com|Ivan Henriques]] Symbiotic Machine | * [[http://www.ingramclockworks.com/index.html|Ian Ingram]] various projects |
* FoAM's [[http://augmentedecology.com/|Augmented Ecology]] | * FoAM's [[http://augmentedecology.com/|Augmented Ecology]] |
* [[http://www.shlomi-mir.com/tumbleweed/|Shlomi Mir]] Tumbleweed Robot | * [[http://ivanhenriques.com|Ivan Henriques]] Symbiotic Machine |
* [[http://marniajohnston.com/section/278549_TE_ND_Rover_Project.html|Marina Johnston]] [[http://www.tendrover.com/|Te+nd Rover]] | * [[https://notnot.home.xs4all.nl/spotter/spotter.html/Driessen Verstappen]] |
* [[http://www.plantasnomadas.com/|Gilberto Esparza]] Nomadic Plants | * [[https://www.spelapetric.org/#/navalgazing/Spela Petric]] |
* [[http://www.cartesiusmuseum.org/|Giep Hagoort]] plans a [[http://www.robots.nu/krijgt-nederland-een-eigen-robopark/|Dutch Robot Park]] | |
* [[http://cargocollective.com/nonhumanagency|Non Human Space Agency]] | |
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Theory: | Theory: |
* Robots in Ecology: [[http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?paperID=18956#.VPbpRGYk9AY|Welcome to the machine PDF]] | * Robots in Ecology: [[http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?paperID=18956#.VPbpRGYk9AY|Welcome to the machine PDF]] |
| * [[http://tuinvanmachines.hetnieuweinstituut.nl/en|Het Nieuwe Instituut]] Tuin van Machines |
| * see also [[thalience]] |
| * see also [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley|uncanny valley]] |
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Universities: | Universities: |
* Bristol Robotics Lab [[http://singularityhub.com/2010/08/05/robot-with-artificial-gut-eats-waste-for-electrical-power-video/|Robot with artificial gut]] [[https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/titles/alife/0262290758chap131.pdf|research PDF]] and their study on [[http://phys.org/news/2012-05-environmentally-friendly-robot.html|Biodegradable Robotics]] | * Bristol Robotics Lab [[http://singularityhub.com/2010/08/05/robot-with-artificial-gut-eats-waste-for-electrical-power-video/|Robot with artificial gut]] [[https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/titles/alife/0262290758chap131.pdf|research PDF]] [[http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/03/0331_060331_robot_flesh.html|bug eating robot]] and their study on [[http://phys.org/news/2012-05-environmentally-friendly-robot.html|Biodegradable Robotics]] |
* [[http://www.kuleuven.be/wieiswie/en/person/00085557|Robbe van Beers]] KU Leuven, robotica and ripeness sensors used for [[http://spie.org/profile/Robbe.Van%20Beers-9076|Breaburn apples]] | * [[http://www.kuleuven.be/wieiswie/en/person/00085557|Robbe van Beers]] KU Leuven, robotica and ripeness sensors used for [[http://spie.org/profile/Robbe.Van%20Beers-9076|Breaburn apples]] |
* [[http://www.lr.tudelft.nl/nl/actueel/laatste-nieuws/artikel/detail/media-aandacht-cyber-zoo/|TUDelft]] CyberZoo | * [[http://www.lr.tudelft.nl/nl/actueel/laatste-nieuws/artikel/detail/media-aandacht-cyber-zoo/|TUDelft]] CyberZoo |
* [[https://news.wsu.edu/2014/12/03/research-examines-quality-of-landscape-cover-for-prey/#.VR-n-WaZZAY|WSU]] LiDAR fearscapes | * [[https://news.wsu.edu/2014/12/03/research-examines-quality-of-landscape-cover-for-prey/#.VR-n-WaZZAY|WSU]] LiDAR fearscapes |
* [[http://www2.isr.uc.pt/~embedded/events/WREM/RSS2013/Home.html|Workshop on Robotics for Environmental Monitoring 2013]] | * [[http://www2.isr.uc.pt/~embedded/events/WREM/RSS2013/Home.html|Workshop on Robotics for Environmental Monitoring 2013]] |
| * [[http://cocoro.uni-graz.at/drupal/home|Graz University]] CoCoRo - Marine Robotic Swarms |
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Open Source: | Open Source: |
Companies: | Companies: |
* [[http://www.festo.com/cms/en_corp/9617.htm|Festo]] | * [[http://www.festo.com/cms/en_corp/9617.htm|Festo]] |
| * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energetically_Autonomous_Tactical_Robot|Cyclone Power Tech]] plant biomass powered robot |
* [[http://swarmfarm.com/|Swarm Farm]] | * [[http://swarmfarm.com/|Swarm Farm]] |
* [[http://clearflightsolutions.com/|Robird]] | * [[http://clearflightsolutions.com/|Robird]] |
* [[http://www.fieldrobot.nl/|Field Robot competition]] in [[http://fre2015.um.si/index.php/event-program|Maribor]] June 15th | * [[http://www.fieldrobot.nl/|Field Robot competition]] in [[http://fre2015.um.si/index.php/event-program|Maribor]] June 15th |
* [[http://softroboticstoolkit.com/|Soft Robotics]] this years [[http://softroboticstoolkit.com/design-competition|challenge]] | * [[http://softroboticstoolkit.com/|Soft Robotics]] this years [[http://softroboticstoolkit.com/design-competition|challenge]] |
| * [[https://youtu.be/ZFWzmC7B-TE|Hebocon]] for the technically unskilled |
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Conferences: | Conferences: |